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The Online Program of events for the 2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.

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Session

Sounding Excitement and Resistance in Latin American Communities
Location: Lake Superior A
Session Chair: Eduardo Sato

Presentation 3

Affective Economies, Excitation Transfers, and Sonic Atmospheres in Argentine Soccer Stadiums

Eduardo Herrera

Indiana University,

From the roar of the crowd after a goal to the non-stop chanting and drumming of hardcore fans, from the players’ grunt while fighting for position to the whistle of an exasperated referee, sound acts as a conduit for the circulation of emotions in Argentine soccer stadiums. Sonic events mediate experience through an affective economy that can conjure collective memory, shape behaviors, and intensify or dull the stadium’s atmosphere. These are not discrete affective events but episodic dramas unfolding over time. Each string of plays, game half, match, season, and club’s history establishes an affective disposition that grounds the appraisal and expression of emotion at any point. This paper uses phenomenology and (auto)ethnography to demonstrate the centrality of sound to this ebb and flow by bringing together two distinct bodies of scholarship to develop the notion of sonic affective economies within sports: emotion-enhancing excitation transfer theory (EEETT) and the concept of affective atmospheres. On the one hand, EEETT offers an explanatory framework for how the affective value of sound increases through circulation (Ahmed 2004) within short spans of time (Zillmann 2008; Cummins and Berke 2017; Cummins, Wise, and Nutting 2012). On the other hand, the concept of sonic affective atmospheres (Abels 2022, Eisenlohr 2022; 2018; Ashmore 2017; Jack 2021; 2024) shows how acoustic events transgresses body boundaries, connects thousands through vibrational materiality, and creates “energetic flows that affect felt-bodies while allowing for the mediation of the sonic through auditory cultures, semiotic ideologies, and other historically and social embedded traditions” (Eisenlohr 2018, 51). Complementing EEETT and its focus on the immediacy of stimuli, the concept of atmosphere is latently historical, reconciles the material and semiotic aspects of sound, and links actors across time and space. This work demonstrates how sonic events play a critical role in the affective economies of sports and the circulation, amplification, and transformation of emotions among participants, adding to recent musicological studies that demonstrate how sonic practices in sports and fandom operate as meaningful sites of political and social life (Jack 2013; 2021; 2024; Herrera 2018; 2024; 2025; Achondo 2022; 2024; Wells 2023).